Marketing

The terms global marketing and international marketing sounds very similar to one another. However, both can be seen as two different stages of internationalization or international business operations. Global marketing refers to carrying out marketing operations from the company's headquarter while selling products or services worldwide in different countries. Whereas, … [Read more...] about Global Marketing Vs International Marketing

Definition: Marketing control refers to the measurement of the company's marketing performance in terms of the sales revenue generated, market share captured, and profit earned. Here, the actual result is compared with the standard set, to find out the deviation and make rectifications accordingly. Marketing is one of the crucial functions of any organization. Therefore, the … [Read more...] about Marketing Control

Definition: Channel conflict can be explained as any dispute, difference or discord arising between two or more channel partners, where one partner's activities or operations affect the business, sales, profitability, market share or similar goal accomplishment of the other channel partner. As we know that every manufacturing company needs to plan its distribution and … [Read more...] about Channel Conflict

Definition: The theories of selling implies to the behaviour of the salesperson towards the prospect or the customer, which ensures the active sale of goods or services. The selling theories gained significance due to the emerging role of the salesperson in marketing since a seller acts as a marketer too. Building a strong relationship with the customers is essential for the … [Read more...] about Theories of Selling

Definition: Service marketing refers to the application of a different set of tactics or strategies to anticipate the consumer's need for an intangible product. And thus, meet their requirements accordingly, to create maximum value for them from their purchase. The marketing of services is different from the marketing of products. While selling off services, convincing the … [Read more...] about Service Marketing

Definition: The wheel of retailing refers to a hypothesis, which depicts the life cycle of a retail organization. It starts as a discount retail business to attract price-sensitive consumers and then gradually converts into a luxury brand store or departmental store to cater to high-end consumers. Prof. Malcolm Perrine McNair proposed this theory in the year 1931. He … [Read more...] about Wheel of Retailing

Definition: The marketing information system refers to the use of technology for the arrangement of the relevant data related to the market, sales, promotion, price, competition and allocation of goods and service. This information is acquired after a proper analysis and understanding of the marketing environment to ensure effective decision making in the organization. It … [Read more...] about Marketing Information System

Definition: Global retailing is the concept of selling products (i.e., goods and services) across the geographical boundaries of a country to the consumers available in the different parts of the world to attain global presence and recognition and to capture the opportunities prevailing in the potential overseas markets. The concept of global retailing is widely adopted … [Read more...] about Global Retailing

Definition: Scaling technique is a method of placing respondents in continuation of gradual change in the pre-assigned values, symbols or numbers based on the features of a particular object as per the defined rules. All the scaling techniques are based on four pillars, i.e., order, description, distance and origin. The marketing research is highly dependable upon the … [Read more...] about Scaling Techniques

Definition: E-commerce or electronic commerce is an intangible business platform which enables the individuals, business entities and companies to sell their products or services and carry out various commercial activities, through an electronic network. E-commerce has gained immense popularity among the customers who find it convenient to browse the products and services … [Read more...] about E-commerce